Python’s new JIT compiler might be the biggest speed boost we’ve seen in a while, but it’s not without bumps. Get that news and more, in this week’s report.

By 2024, AI systems significantly enhanced coding productivity in the US, primarily benefiting experienced developers. While AI-assisted coding surged globally, gains were unevenly distributed, with ...

By the end of 2024, around one-third of newly written blocks of computer programs in the US took support from AI systems -- gains in productivity, however, ...

New Rust release brings major improvements to musl’s DNS resolver and tweaks the standard library to aid global allocators.

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GitHub has introduced the GitHub Copilot SDK in technical preview, allowing developers to embed Copilot’s agentic capabilities directly into their own applications.

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Microsoft has released open-source Quantum Development Kit tools for chemistry and error correction, with VS Code integration ...

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WIRED spoke with Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code, about how the viral coding tool is changing the way Anthropic works.